chapter 12 personality: theory, research and assessment
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Chapter 12
Personality: Theory, Research and Assessment
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Personality
An individual’s characteristic pattern of
Thinking FeelingBehaving
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Personality traits
Durable dispositiona characteristic pattern of behavior
a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports
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Empirically derived test
a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups
Factor analysis
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The Big Five
Costa and McCrae1.Openness to experience2.Conscientiousness3.Extroversion4.Agreeableness5.Neuroticism
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The Big Five
Costa and McCrae NEO Inventory
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Personality Inventory
a questionnaire (often with true-false items) used to assess selected personality traits
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The Trait Perspective
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)most widely researched and clinically used
developed to identify emotional disorders
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MMPI
Validity scalesIs it measuring what it is intending to measure?
Clinical scalesPsychological disorders
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MMPI: Validity scales
Cannot say (?)= evasiveLie scale (L)= present
oneself in a favorable way Infrequency scale (F)= rare
answer, indicates confusion or faking illness
Subtle defensiveness (K)= protecting self
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MMPI: Clinical scales
Hypochondriasis= body complaints, somatoform
Depression= moody, pessimistic, distressed
Hysteria= denial, repression, dependence
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MMPI: Clinical scales
Psychopathic deviation = antisocial personality disorder
Masculinity/femininityParanoiaPsychasthenia= anxiety
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MMPI: Clinical scales
Schizophrenia= delusions/hallucinations, withdrawn
Hypomania= manic episode
Social introversion= shy
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MMPI: Clinical scales
Pages 511-514Profile
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The Psychoanalytic Perspective
Freud childhood experience
unconscious motivations influence personality
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Psychoanalysis
techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions
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Free association
in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious
person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
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Dream analysis
Interpreting and finding meaning in dreams
Different levels Latent contentManifest content
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Personality Structure
Freud’s idea of the mind’s structure
Id
Superego
Ego Conscious mind
Unconscious mind
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The Psychoanalytic Perspective
UnconsciousMostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories
Not in our awareness
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Personality Structure
Idunconsciousbasic sexual and aggressive drives
pleasure principleThe little devil on your shoulder
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Personality Structure
SUPERegoIDEALS and standards for judgement
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Personality Structure
Egomediates among the demands of the id and the superego
operates on the reality principle
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Personality Development
Psychosexual Stagesthe childhood stages of development during which the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones
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Personality Development
Freud’s Psychosexual Stages
Stage Focus
Oral Pleasure centers on the mouth--(0-18 months) sucking, biting, chewing
Anal Pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder (18-36 months) elimination; coping with demands for
control
Phallic Pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with (3-6 years) sexual feelings
Latency Dormant sexual feelings(6 to puberty)
Genital Maturation of sexual interests(puberty on)
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Personality Development
Identificationchildren incorporate their parents’ values into their superegos
Fixation Unresolved conflict
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Personality Development
Oedipus Complexa boy’s sexual desires for mom and feelings of jealousy and hatred for dad
Electra Complexa girl’s sexual desires for dad and feelings of jealousy and hatred for mom
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Defense Mechanisms
the ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
Briar Patch questions!
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Defense Mechanisms
Repression the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness
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Defense Mechanisms
Regression defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated
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Defense Mechanisms
Reaction Formation defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites
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Defense Mechanisms
Projection defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
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Defense Mechanisms
Rationalization defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one’s actions
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Defense Mechanisms
Displacementshifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person
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Concept check 12.1
Identifying defense mechanisms
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Projective Tests
a personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Rorschach Inkblot Test
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Projective Tests
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes
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Projective Tests
Rorschach Inkblot Test a set of 10 inkblots designed by Hermann Rorschach
seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
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Neo-Freudians
Carl JungAnalytical psychologyEmphasized the collective unconscious and archetypes
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Neo-Freudians
Alfred AdlerIndividual psychologyImportance of childhood social tension and birth order
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Neo-Freudians
Alfred AdlerStriving for superiorityCompensationInferiority complex
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Neo-Freudians
Karen HorneyFeminist perspectivePenis envy as symbolic
Womb envy
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Evaluating Psychodynamic theory
1.Poor testability 2.Inadequate evidence3.Sexism4.Don’t throw the baby
out with the bath water!
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Behaviorists
1.Skinner: operant conditioning
2.Bandura: Observational learning Social cognitive theory
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Social-Cognitive Perspective
Social-Cognitive Perspectiveviews behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons and their social context
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Social-Cognitive Perspective
Reciprocal Determinism the interacting influences between personality and environmental factors
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Social-Cognitive Perspective
Mischel and ShodaPerson X situationExample:
Niki is consistently quiet in class
Niki is consistently talkative with her friends
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Social-Cognitive Perspective
Self-efficacyOne’s belief about one’s ability to perform behaviors
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Social-Cognitive Perspective
Internal Locus of Control the perception that one controls one’s own fate
External Locus of Control the perception that chance or outside forces beyond one’s personal control determine one’s fate
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Seligman
Not discussed in detail in your book, take good notes!
Learned Helplessness OptimismPositive Psychology
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Social-Cognitive Perspective
Learned Helplessness the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
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Social-Cognitive Perspective
Learned Helplessness
Uncontrollablebad events
Perceivedlack of control
Generalizedhelpless behavior
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Social-Cognitive Perspective
Positive Psychology the scientific study of optimal
human functioning aims to discover and promote
conditions that enable individuals and communities to thrive
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Humanistic Perspective
focus on growth and fulfillment of individuals
Maslow
Rogers
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Humanistic Perspective
Self-Actualizationthe motivation to fulfill one’s potential
“Be all that you can be”
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Humanistic Perspective
Maslow’s hierarchy of needsFigure 12.11Page 498
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Humanistic Perspective
Roger’s client-centered therapy
Focus on unconditional positive regard
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Humanistic Perspective
Unconditional Positive Regardan attitude of total acceptance toward another person
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Concept check 12.2
Recognizing key concepts in personality theories
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Biological perspectives
1.Eysenck’s theory2.Behavioral genetics3.Evolutionary
approach
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Eysenck’s theory
1.Genetics => personality2.Three higher order
traits1.Extraversion2.Neuroticism3.Psychoticism
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Behavior genetics
Empirical research1.Twins2.Minnesota study3.Identical twins more
alike than fraternal twins
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Behavior genetics
1.Are identical twins treated more alike too?
2.Shared family environment still has influence
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Evolutionary approach
1.Natural selection favors specific traits
2.Buss suggests Big Five factors more adaptive (think Survivor!)
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Big Five
What are the Big Five factors?
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The Big Five
1.Openness to experience
2.Conscientiousness3.Extroversion4.Agreeableness5.Neuroticism
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Evolutionary approach
Think Survivor… “Who will make a good
member of my coalition?”
“Who can I depend on?” “Who will share?”
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Concept check 12.3
Who said this?
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Approaches to Personality
1.Psychodynamic2.Behavioral3.Humanistic4.Biological
Review pages 504-505
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Approaches to Personality
Don’t forget trait and social-cognitive
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Approaches to Personality
You need to know the strengths and weaknesses of each approach as well
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Don’t forget
1.Contemporary empirical approaches
2.Culture and personality3.Understanding
personality assessment4.Hindsight
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